[argyllcms] Re: ArgyllCMS V1.5.0 has been released
- From: Ben Goren <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: argyllcms@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2013 12:36:07 -0700
On Mar 4, 2013, at 7:08 AM, Graeme Gill <graeme@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Ben Goren wrote:
>
>> Any chance you've got a better idea of what the new i1 is like, and how much
>> of an
>> upgrade it is over the old one?
>
> Hi,
> I've not got much to add at the moment. It's hard to evaluate with
> nothing
> of a known higher accuracy to compare it with. The better black calibration
> helps
> in making low level display measurements a lot. The UV LED does seem to have
> the
> potential to improve FWA compensation by something like 1 DE, or perhaps more
> with
> unusual paper. The wavelength calibration is doing little at the moment,
> but I'm not about to bash the instrument about in an attempt to cause some
> optical mis-alignment for it to correct!
>
> I have had some trouble with unreliability in making reflective measurements.
> It
> seems like it might be a USB connection problem but being intermittent, I
> haven't
> got to the bottom of whether it is related to the i1pro2 or not.
Thanks for the update. Seems like, for the time being, the situation remains
the same: worth getting the new version if buying new, but for most not worth
upgrading if you've already got the old.
Cheers,
b&
P.S. I hope to be doing my first real profiling with the new version later this
week, and sometime next week at the absolute latest. I'll let you know what I
find.... b&
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